Mexican Spider Monkey
Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus

The Mexican Spider Monkey is a subspecies of Geoffroy's Spider Monkey, also called the Black-handed Spider Monkey,
native to forests of Mexico and Central America. Above is a youngster but the adult is large for an American monkey.

With exceptionally long limbs in relation to its body and a long, thick, prehensile tail, it is easy to see
how it got the name Spider Monkey. The photos above were taken in Mexico by Alexandra Makhnina.